A player who's probably Nichlas Mattsson (the hood is rather too effective) just doubled through after getting his whole stack in preflop (18,225) with . The action started in early position with a raise to 900, then Jean Thorel raised to 2,300 - Mattsson was the cold four-bettor pre to 6,225. The original raiser folded, but Thorel, checking out his opponent's shorter than average stack, threw in a jumble of chips setting him in. He was happy to oblige, and happy to see Thorel with .
Thorel hit a jack on the flop but missed improvement on the turn and river. He's still on a decent 56,000 stack, while Mattsson is on 40,000.
Our 686 runners have generated a €6,680,000 prize pool - note that now that we're in Spain and not in Monaco, no money has been taken out of the prize pool for taxes and the like. 104 places pay out with a lowly min-cash worth €15,000. Whoever takes the top spot, however, will walk away with a potentially life-changing €1.5 million. Please head over to the Payouts tab for the full breakdown.
A full board of was out on the felt when we arrived and EPT Barcelona finalist Jesus Cortes Lizano was betting out 6,200 from the cutoff. On the button Niccolo Caramatti squirmed for a little while and eventually announced a call - and before the dealer could demand a showdown, Lizano had tapped the table and mucked his hand. Caramatti handed his cards back to the dealer without having to show, and is back up to 30,000. Lizano is still in good shape on around 50,000.
Ivan Demidov, the Russian WSOP Main Event runner-up and Team PokerStars Pro is up to 85,000 after he bet 15,000 on the river of a board against Thorsten Schafer. The latter made the call for about half his stack, but could only nod his head when Demidov turned over for the nut full house.
We haven't seen much in the way of hands from these two, but seeing as it's Mother's Day over in the States and we know their folks are watching, here are Michael Martin and Carter Phillips in photographic glory.
Flopping the nuts with might have seemed like a good double up opportunity for short stack David Baker, especially as he was up against a King-high flush draw only in the hands of Anthony Maranca (according to our original seat plan which is becoming obsolete as the 300 remaining players move about). But the flop which enticed the stacks in received a on the turn and the stayed good (even though the all-in was still not strictly drawing dead). The river was the and as the minutes tick down to the dinner break, the field finally slips under the 300-person mark.